[Insight-users] Convert NRRD into DICOM

Bill Lorensen bill.lorensen at gmail.com
Fri Jul 3 07:45:07 EDT 2009


Can you post the nrrd header file?

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 5:48 AM, Ezequiel Geremia<t-egerem at microsoft.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> Thank you, I appreciate your support on this question.
>
>
>
> The images are volumes dimensions: ( 512, 512, 512 ) and pixel type is
> short.
>
>
>
> While trying to run the task manager with the ITK conversion executable
> there is no jump in RAM usage, this is why I think the RAW volume is not
> even loaded in memory, the reader just does not find it.
>
>
>
> My understanding is that there is no memory problem, indeed I manage to load
> the same image with the same executable just by moving to the directory
> containing the NRRD volumes.
>
>
>
> Many thanks,
>
>
>
> Ezequiel
>
>
>
> From: Luis Ibanez [mailto:luis.ibanez at kitware.com]
> Sent: 02 July 2009 23:56
> To: Ezequiel Geremia
> Cc: itk
> Subject: Re: [Insight-users] Convert NRRD into DICOM
>
>
>
> Hi Ezequiel,
>
> Thanks for posting the error message from the Exception.
>
> I just verified that a NRRD header file can be moved along
> with its associated .raw file to a different directory and still
> be read with the NRRD reader included into ITK.
>
> --
>
>
> Looking at the code...
>
>   ...(Ah!, the Unbeatable Glory of Open Source)...
>
> We find that the error message that you posted is being
> generated by line 161 of:
>
>             Insight/Utilities/NrrdIO/formatNRRD.c
>
> that curiously is part of (160-165):
>
>       if ((err = (char*)malloc(strlen(fname) + AIR_STRLEN_MED))) {
>         sprintf(err, "%s: couldn't open \"%s\" (data file %d of %d) for %s",
>                 me, fname, nio->dataFNIndex+1, (int)_nrrdDataFNNumber(nio),
>                 reading ? "reading" : "writing");
>         biffAdd(NRRD, err); free(err);
>       }
>
>
>
> Admittedly,
> the error message is quite misleading here...
>
> It is clear that what is happening in these lines above
> is that the code is failing to allocate enough memory
> for your image.
>
> So...
> please tell us:
>
>
>        A)  How big is the image ?
>
>        B)  How much RAM do you have ?
>
>
> and please run this code while you have open the
> TaskManager, and check on how much memory
> is available at the time the program post this message.
>
>
> If memory allocation turns out to be the real problem,
> please feel free to add a bug report suggesting
> that this error message be replaced with something
> that indicates that we are dealing with a Memory
> Allocation problem, as opposed to an I/O problem.
>
> You can report bugs at:
> http://public.kitware.com/Bug/my_view_page.php
>
>
>
>
>      Please let us know what you find,
>
>
>            Thanks
>
>
>                   Luis
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Ezequiel Geremia <t-egerem at microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Luis,
>
> The reader.Update() call is inside a try\catch block.
>
> Here is the exception which is caught:
>
> ExceptionObject caught !
>
> itk::ExceptionObject (00A0E9A8)
> Location: "void __thiscall itk::NrrdImageIO::ReadImageInformation(void)"
> File: ..\..\..\src\Code\IO\itkNrrdImageIO.cxx
> Line: 264
> Description: itk::ERROR: NrrdImageIO(025D1DC0): ReadImageInformation: Error
> read
> ing C:\Downloads\MS-Lesion-Segmentation-2008\Extracted-Files\Test
> ing-Data\CHB_test1_Part1\CHB_test1_Case01\CHB_test1_Case01_FLAIR.nhdr:
> [nrrd] nrrdLoad: trouble reading "C:\Downloads\MS-Lesion-Segmenta
> tion-2008\Extracted-Files\Testing-Data\CHB_test1_Part1\CHB_test1_Case01\CHB_test
> 1_Case01_FLAIR.nhdr"
> [nrrd] nrrdRead: trouble reading NRRD file
> [nrrd] _nrrdFormatNRRD_read: couldn't open the first datafile
> [nrrd] nrrdIoStateDataFileIterNext: couldn't open
> "./CHB_test1_Case01_FLAIR.raw"
>  (data file 1 of 1) for reading
>
> In this case, the reader does not seem to add the path of the header file
> (i.e.
> "C:\Downloads\MS-Lesion-Segmentation-2008\Extracted-Files\Testing-Data\CHB_test1_Part1\CHB_test1_Case01\")
> to the filename found in the header file and which is in the same directory
> (i.e. "./CHB_test1_Case01_FLAIR.raw").
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Ezequiel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luis Ibanez [mailto:luis.ibanez at kitware.com]
>
> Sent: 02 July 2009 17:51
> To: Ezequiel Geremia; Insight Users
> Subject: Re: [Insight-users] Convert NRRD into DICOM
>
>
> Hi Ezequiel,
>
> Thanks for the update.
>
> I haven't seen this problem before.
>
> I would be very surprised if the reader relies on absolute
> paths, because that will mean that it is impossible to
> move NRRD files from one computer to another,... and even
> from one directory to another in the same machine.
>
>
>
> Did you got an error message ?
>
> If so,
> Could you please post it to the mailing list ?
>
> Are you placing the Update() call of the reader
> inside a try/catch block ?
>
>
>
>   Please let us konw
>
>
>      Thanks
>
>
>        Luis
>
>
> ------------------------
> Ezequiel Geremia wrote:
>> Hi Luis,
>>
>> Thank you for answering my mail,
>>
>> I managed to read NRRD format by passing the header .nhdr or .mhd files
>> and to convert them into DICOM series.
>>
>> The NRRD format I got form the MS Segmentation Challenge 2008 & Liver
>> Tumor Segmentation Challenge 2008 websites seem to be specified as the union
>> of a header and a RAW data file.
>>
>> However I experienced another issue concerning the reader. When I pass the
>> header, which contains the relative filename of the .raw file to be
>> converted, as an input, the reader is not able to find it (maybe because the
>> reader relies on absolute filenames).
>>
>> Do you know a way out of this ?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ezequiel
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Luis Ibanez [mailto:luis.ibanez at kitware.com]
>> Sent: 30 June 2009 22:27
>> To: Ezequiel Geremia
>> Cc: insight-users at itk.org
>> Subject: Re: [Insight-users] Convert NRRD into DICOM
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Ezequiel,
>>
>>
>>      If your input file is in NRRD format,
>>      why are you passing a RAW format as input ?
>>
>>
>> ITK is expecting that a NRRD file will be called
>>
>>                LTS_IMG05.nrrd
>>
>> not to be called:
>>
>>                LTS_IMG05.raw
>>
>>
>>
>> Also, is this image 2D or 3D ?
>>
>>
>> You may have to retouch the example code in order
>> to manage 3D images.
>>
>>
>>     Regards,
>>
>>
>>         Luis
>>
>>
>> --------------------------
>> Ezequiel Geremia wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>I tried to convert NRRD, which is ITK supported format, data volumes
>>>into DICOM volumes using the generic converter given in
>>>/ImageReadWrite.exe/ with the following arguments
>>>
>>>-          Input file: LTS_IMG05.raw
>>>
>>>-          Output file: LTS_IM05.dcm (also tried .dic and .dicom file
>>>extensions)
>>>
>>>-          Exception:
>>>
>>>itk::ImageFileReaderException (0146EEC0)
>>>
>>>Location: "void __thiscall itk::ImageFileReader<class
>>>itk::Image<short,3>,class itk::DefaultConvertPixelTraits<short>
>>> >::GenerateOutputInformation(void)"
>>>
>>>File:
>>>c:\users\t-egerem\software\insighttoolkit-3.14.0\src\code\io\itkImageFileReader.txx
>>>
>>>Line: 144
>>>
>>>Description:  Could not create IO object for file
>>>C:\Users\t-egerem\Downloads\3D-Liver-Tumor-Segmentation-Challenge-2008\Extracted-Files\Testing-Data\LTS_IMG05.raw
>>>
>>>  Tried to create one of the following:
>>>
>>>    GDCMImageIO
>>>
>>>    MetaImageIO
>>>
>>>    PNGImageIO
>>>
>>>    VTKImageIO
>>>
>>>    GiplImageIO
>>>
>>>    BioRadImageIO
>>>
>>>    LSMImageIO
>>>
>>>    AnalyzeImageIO
>>>
>>>    NiftiImageIO
>>>
>>>    StimulateImageIO
>>>
>>>    JPEGImageIO
>>>
>>>    TIFFImageIO
>>>
>>>    NrrdImageIO
>>>
>>>    BMPImageIO
>>>
>>>    DICOMImageIO2
>>>
>>>  You probably failed to set a file suffix or set the suffix to an
>>>unsupported type.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Then I tried to shortcut the pluggable factory mechanism and it does not
>>>as well with the same data it throws the following error message
>>>
>>>                itk::ExceptionObject (0122F614)
>>>
>>>Location: "void __thiscall itk::ImageFileReader<class
>>>itk::Image<short,3>,class itk::DefaultConvertPixelTraits<short>
>>> >::EnlargeOutputRequestedRegion(class itk::DataObject *)"File:
>>>c:\users\t-egerem\software\insighttoolkit-3.14.0\src\code\io\itkImageFileReader.txx
>>>
>>>Line: 342
>>>
>>>Description: itk::ERROR: ImageFileReader(0172F7C0): ImageIO returns IO
>>>region that does not fully contain the requested regionRequested region:
>>>ImageRegion (0122F8D8)
>>>
>>>  Dimension: 3
>>>
>>>  Index: [0, 0, 0]
>>>
>>>  Size: [0, 0, 0]
>>>
>>>StreamableRegion region: ImageRegion (0172F8A4)
>>>
>>>  Dimension: 3
>>>
>>>  Index: [0, 0, 0]
>>>
>>>  Size: [0, 0, 0]
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>If you can think of a solution can you please point it out to me ?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Ezequiel Geremia
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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